Backbiting Stories

Humans are complex and there is one kind of human who are disliked by the others - backbiters and cursing. Hafi was one of them. But, have we ever thought about the consequences? Are we really sure that backbiting and cursing were only some common habits in humans? Now, think again after you read Hafi's story.

"Look!" Sapnap points toward a house, its walls were refined, its windows were unsullied. "My- sorry, our house looked even better than when we first found it." The blonde man behind him couldn't hear his friend speaking as he was busy carrying their luggage from their car. Without delay, Sapnap burst into the house, inspecting the spick and span rooms with glistening eyes. He bolted to the floor above to find two bedrooms. "I call dibs on this one!" he yelled down the stairs as he made his way to the room closest to the spiralling staircase, diving into the bed as if it was a swimming pool. Both of them would've never predicted that this would be the origination of the new chapter in their lives, where if fate moves the wrong chess piece, one too many tragedies would fall upon everyone they knew. --- Inspired by the Dreamland Album by Glass Animals. Image from Google - I do not own it.

Sarah, Mona, Ameerah and Nadia go to an all-girls school in Saudi Arabia. One day, a girl named Deena tells them all the things that their backbiting best friend, Sama, had been telling everyone, the lies, and the rumors she's been spreading about each of the four girls. So the four of them make a plan to find out the truth, and eventually take her down.

Story from a girl who's in the end got no one to help her up. Because the only person she trusted the most betrayed her for personal purposes.